{"id":7719,"date":"2026-10-08T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7719"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:53:41","slug":"two-tragic-fires-in-1871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7719","title":{"rendered":"Two Tragic Fires in 1871"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11016\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11016\" class=\"wp-image-11016 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Great-Chicago-Fire-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Map of Fire Damage\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of Fire Damage<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Great Chicago Fire of 1871<\/strong> burned for thirty hours. Legend states Mrs. O\u2019Leary\u2019s cow kicked over a lantern and started a fire in her barn. Almost one hundred thousand people lost their homes, and over 200\u00a0people died. Children could learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/recon\/jb_recon_chicago_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peshtigo Forest Fire<\/strong> also started in 1871. Experts believe this to be one of the most damaging forest fires ever. The fire began in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and spread across six counties. More than 1,100 people died. Children could learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/recon\/jb_recon_fires_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peshtigo Forest Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Chicago Fire of 1871 burned for thirty hours. Legend states Mrs. O\u2019Leary\u2019s cow kicked over a lantern and started a fire in her barn. Almost one hundred thousand people lost their homes, and over 200\u00a0people died. Children could learn more at:\u00a0Chicago Fire. Peshtigo Forest Fire also started in 1871. Experts believe this to be <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7719' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5039,1121,2951,19,5925,2953,2952,659],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5039","tag-chicago","tag-great-chicago-fire","tag-illinois","tag-october-7","tag-peshtigo","tag-peshtigo-forest-fire","tag-wisconsin","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29777,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions\/29777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}